Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 129 The ability to examine the world

   "Yeah." Keating couldn't help but praise, "You've grown up very fast. If this matter is used properly, it can indeed not only expand our advantages, but also make up for our disadvantages."

  Villac was in a good mood, lying on the bed and stretching his body: "I hope everything goes well."

   Now his mind is full of Lecter's promise of "I can meet any request you have." Keating has agreed to reveal some golden clues, so he can ask Lecter for this request in eight days.

   Trapped in prison, some things that he had never dared to think about seemed to be able to be reconsidered.

   For example, contact the Equality Association.

  Since he was locked in, he has been trying to find ways to get news from the outside world and try to contact the Equality Association. Even when he was injured, he did not hesitate to give up the chance of treatment in exchange for information with Lecter.

   While caring about the Equal Society, he was still torturing himself.

In fact, he was very confused, because when he was in Laizein, he had been deceiving and using the Equality Council. Although he finally told the truth when he faced Boin and tried to save him, he and Boin The relationship between the Equality Association is still very delicate.

  He thought about it many times, put himself into the perspective of Boyne and many people, looked at himself from their perspective, thought about whether he was worthy of forgiveness, and whether he would be classified as an enemy, but the results were not so good. After all, trust is broken and it is very difficult to rebuild it.

  The Equality Society is currently negotiating with the government, whether true or false, and letting a fake Chris be a hostage is nothing to them, so it is absolutely impossible to reveal his identity at this time.

   "What's the matter?" Keating felt a little depressed after seeing Veraker's joy.

  Verak was unable to truthfully describe the predicament he was facing: "I want to take advantage of the opportunity Lecter said to meet my request, and get in touch with the Equality Association."

"This is a good thing. If you can get in touch with them and know their true intentions for peace talks, maybe you don't have to think about escaping from prison. You just need to wait for them to rescue you." Keating encouraged Veraker to take advantage of this opportunity. on himself.

   "Rescue..." Veraker was really not confident that equality would save him.

"how?"

  Verak closed his eyes: "It's okay."

  Verak has some regrets. If he had woken up earlier, less dominated by money for a while, and bravely faced what he thought in his heart, then Colin would not have died, and he would not have to be imprisoned in Daymans Prison.

   At worst, he can continue to bear the name of Chris, fight side by side with the comrades of the Equality Association, and sacrifice everything for freedom and equality together in Laize.

   Unfortunately regret doesn't make any sense.

   "Worried they failed?" Keating guessed.

   "...um." Veraker didn't intend to explain, so he let Keating think about it.

   "It's okay, rest assured to your companions, they have their own decisions, even if they are not so careful, don't you still make up your mind to go out before the dust settles? You have time to help them."

   If there is a day to go out, Verac certainly wants to return to Laizein.

   "I hope so." Verak hoped that the Equality Council would be able to accept him by then, "Thank you."

   "It's nothing, you still have a long way to go, and there will be many like-minded friends with you. I hope you can keep going and go to victory, and I also hope that you can have 100% confidence in your friends." Keating said.

   "Eat." When it was time for the meal, the prison guard who delivered the meal put the meal on the partition.

   "Okay, thank you." Verak got up to take two lunch boxes from the partition, and thanked the prison guard.

  The prison guard smiled and left.

  Villac shared a meal with Keating, and they sat down and ate together.

   "Teacher." After eating half of the meal in silence, Verak suddenly said, "I think it's a bit of a waste to use that opportunity in the Contact Equality Meeting."

   "Why?" Keating couldn't believe that Veraker would say the word 'waste' to the Equality Council.

  Verak didn't know if he was evading. He gave Keating and himself a plausible reason, and just paralyzed himself like this: "It is difficult to contact them, and even if we do, there will inevitably be risks."

   "Indeed." Keating chewed and swallowed the food, "You can never ask Recht about the true intention of the Equal Council peace talks."

   "Let's see when the time comes, and use the opportunity wisely." After making this decision, Verak felt a little relieved.

  He felt that what Keating said was very reasonable, and what made him even more afraid to face it was, even if there was no risk, would Equality be willing to believe him and tell his true intentions?

   Not necessarily.

   "Hurry up and eat, teacher." Verak picked up the meal.

  Facing the matter of the Equality Association is still too far away, his first solution at the moment is to escape first.

  Ten minutes later, the prison guards took away the lunch box, and the other prisoners also came back for their lunch break. Veraker and Keating, who had been discussing for a long time, felt a little tired and took a rest.

In the afternoon, because the biggest problem of the current prison escape plan, 'contact with other prisoners', has been solved, and other problems will not appear until tomorrow when they contact each other, so Keating didn't discuss those problems over and over again, but taught Verac stuff.

   In the boring prison, Veraker has plenty of time. All he has to think about every day is how to escape from the prison, so he learns very quickly.

"...Origin of Species, you may think that what it says is not useful to you, but it is not. There are many things in this book that can be widely applied elsewhere. For example, in this day and age, never use the old Values ​​to measure new things', such as 'natural selection, survival of the fittest'. (Note: 1 Keating is talking about "Origin of Species" today.

"Hmm." Verac didn't write down what Keating said in his notebook this time, because what Keating said all came from the "Origin of Species" that has been subverting human cognition since six or seven years ago. He intended to read it straight through, to study the Welllander's arguments which he had never thought of.

   "I've finished part of the content of this book, what do you think this book can help you?" Keating asked after routine class.

  Verak replied earnestly: "Understand the development and evolution of all things, and search for answers to other questions from it."

"It's too general." Keating was dissatisfied with this set of rhetoric. "What I really want you to understand is a bigger world, a more advanced world. If you want to be a pioneer, you must have skills like "Origin of Species" The same ability as the author, the same as the author of Equality, to see the world."

   "Looking at the world..." Valak murmured.

  This ability seems to be very difficult for a person like him who was born in poverty and has just begun to get in touch with the vast world.

   "Must have." Keating said.

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  Note 1: From Darwin's "On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection That Preserves Excellent Races in the Struggle for Existence"

   It is the addition of Panlong leader.

  (end of this chapter)